Alert archive / Massachusetts / Frost Advisories in 2016
Frost Advisory 3, NWS Boston/Norton, MA
NWS Boston/Norton, MA issued this frost advisory at Apr 24, 2016, 3:47 PM EDT for Bristol County, Norfolk County, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. It took effect at Apr 24, 2016, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 2016, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 24, 2016, 11:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2016, 2:31 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Boston/Norton, MA
Counties Bristol County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA
The radar
The Boston radar (KBOX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Chatham, MA (KCHH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 92 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
336 WWUS71 KBOX 241947 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 347 PM EDT SUN APR 24 2016 MAZ017>021-250400- /O.NEW.KBOX.FR.Y.0003.160425T0300Z-160425T1200Z/ NORTHERN BRISTOL MA-WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA- SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TAUNTON...BROCKTON...PLYMOUTH... FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD...MATTAPOISETT 347 PM EDT SUN APR 24 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 8 AM EDT MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 PM THIS EVENING TO 8 AM EDT MONDAY. * LOCATION...SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S. * TIMING...LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED IN LOW SPOTS SHELTERED FROM THE WIND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED FOR FROST DURING THE GROWING SEASON. PROTECT ANY VEGETATION THAT IS SUSCEPTIBLE TO FROST DAMAGE. COVER POTTED PLANTS OR BRING THEM INSIDE IF POSSIBLE. && $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
2 follow-up statements
310 WWUS71 KBOX 250248 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 1048 PM EDT SUN APR 24 2016 MAZ017>021-251100- /O.CON.KBOX.FR.Y.0003.160425T0300Z-160425T1200Z/ NORTHERN BRISTOL MA-WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA- SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TAUNTON...BROCKTON...PLYMOUTH... FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD...MATTAPOISETT 1048 PM EDT SUN APR 24 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT MONDAY... * LOCATION...SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOW TO MID 30S. * TIMING...LATE TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING. * IMPACTS...SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS MAY BE KILLED IF LEFT UNCOVERED IN LOW SPOTS SHELTERED FROM THE WIND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED FOR FROST DURING THE GROWING SEASON. PROTECT ANY VEGETATION THAT IS SUSCEPTIBLE TO FROST DAMAGE. COVER POTTED PLANTS OR BRING THEM INSIDE IF POSSIBLE. && $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
317 WWUS71 KBOX 250631 NPWBOX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 231 AM EDT MON APR 25 2016 MAZ017>021-250745- /O.CAN.KBOX.FR.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-160425T1200Z/ NORTHERN BRISTOL MA-WESTERN PLYMOUTH MA-EASTERN PLYMOUTH MA- SOUTHERN BRISTOL MA-SOUTHERN PLYMOUTH MA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...TAUNTON...BROCKTON...PLYMOUTH... FALL RIVER...NEW BEDFORD...MATTAPOISETT 231 AM EDT MON APR 25 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. CLOUDS HAVE RESULTED IN TEMPERATURES RISING INTO THE UPPER 30S AND LOWER 40S DURING THE PREDAWN HOURS. GIVEN MOSTLY CLOUDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING...THE RISK OF ANY FROST HAS DIMINISHED. THUS THE FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$ FOR THE LATEST UPDATES...PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBPAGE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BOSTON YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AT WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.BOSTON.GOV YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AT @NWSBOSTON
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.